2019.52: Sketchbook: Québec City/Condor Airplane Competition (unrealized)/Sky Events

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2019.52

People

Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)

Title

Sketchbook: Québec City/Condor Airplane Competition (unrealized)/Sky Events

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook

Date

1995-1996

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/363180

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Mixed media

Dimensions

35.6 × 29 × 2.1 cm (14 × 11 7/16 × 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene

Copyright

© Otto Piene Estate

Accession Year

2019

Object Number

2019.52

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Subjects and Contexts

• Animating the Page

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